Tsvangirai pays condolences to Msipa in absentia

Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai has paid tribute to the former Midlands provincial governor Cephas Msipa who died on Monday describing him as sober, honest and objective in his assessment of the rot that has crept into Zimbabwe’s leadership.

Tsvangirai failed to join his colleagues who went to Msipa’s Harare home last night to pay their condolences because he is undergoing chemotherapy in South Africa and will return on Friday.

He was diagnosed with cancer in June.

The MDC delegation was led by Tsvangirai’s two vice-presidents Nelson Chamisa and Elias Mudzuri and included secretary for elections Murisi Zwizwai and chief of staff and Gweru Urban  MP Sessel Zvidzai.

Msipa was declared a national hero and will be buried at the weekend.

Tsvangirai’s spokesman Luke Tamborinyoka said Msipa was a rare mould.

“He was one of the genuine heroes who lived true to the values of that struggle. He truly believed, and rightly so, that yesterday’s liberators cannot today turn into tormentors by brutalizing and tormenting the very same people they had liberated,” he said in a statement.

Full statement.

Wednesday, 19 October 2016

MDC leaders pay condolences to the Msipa family

MDC Vice Presidents advocate Nelson Chamisa and engineer Elias Mudzuri last night went to the Harare home of the late national hero, Cephas Msipa to pay their condolences following the death of this iconic son of Zimbabwe.

The Vice Presidents were accompanied by secretary for elections Hon. Murisi  Zwizwai, chief of staff and Gweru Urban  MP Hon. Sessel Zvidzai as well as party leaders from the provinces of Harare and the Midlands. The senior party leadership was received well at the Msipa homestead in Borrowdale where they paid their respects and attended a church service.

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